The stereotypical messenger bag is the most unsexy of unsexy carryalls. It looks cumbersome, perpetually laden down with lead pencils, stacks of notebooks, and a big ole half-empty water bottle. Hardly exciting. You’d never wear it on a night out unless you’re going straight from the library to drinks. Even at that point, you’d run home to switch it out.
And yet, despite these decidedly unglamorous associations, the messenger bag feels like a tabula rasa for the return to the office. If you’re hauling things like your laptop to the office, it’s your best bet for a dependable bag that leaves your hands free to hold onto the subway pole or write an email on your phone.
The best versions of the messenger bag, elevated by luxe fabrics like leather and suede, have a groovy ’60s vibe, all casual and easy. The piece had a resurgence in the early 2000s, as noted in the January 2002 issue ofby writer Jenny Comita. She describes them as the bag of choice of your coolest babysitter. “And she found canvas school bags to be completely unoriginal.
On the runways, it appeared in the Michael Kors–era Celine fall 2002 show, worn by model Audrey Marnay along with a super-polished military-style black coat, and also by Maggie Rizer, who simply wore the leather bag with a simple dark green collared sweater. In the spring 2015 Chanel show, which referenced the civil unrest in France in May 1968, the bag made another cameo.
The messenger bag is slowly reappearing in the 2020s too. For the fall 2021 Chloé show, Gabriella Hearst showed fringe-tastic and woven messenger bags, worn with ponchos and knit long-sleeve dresses in the colors of a Southwestern desert sunset. That same season, Balenciaga released a black nylon messenger bag, the kind you’d see sitting next to a gamer, now with the house’s logo stamped on the flap.
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